Who Was Alive
Crazy Horse
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Crazy Horse

Chief

Born 4 December 1849 · died 5 September 1877, aged 27
Also known as His-Horse-Is-Crazy, Among the Trees

Who was alive at the same time as Crazy Horse?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  3. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  4. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  5. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  6. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  7. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  8. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  9. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  10. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  11. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Crazy Horse, 1849 – 1877
  15. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  16. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  17. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  18. Nikola Tesla, 1856 – 1943
  19. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  20. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941
  21. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  22. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  23. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  24. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965

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When Crazy Horse was born, Karl Marx was 31, Abraham Lincoln was 40, Leo Tolstoy was 21, Charles Darwin was 40 and Victor Hugo was 47.

When Crazy Horse died, Karl Marx was 59, Vladimir Lenin was 7, Mahatma Gandhi was 7, Leo Tolstoy was 48 and Charles Darwin was 68.

Born during Crazy Horse’s lifetime: Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Vincent van Gogh, Winston Churchill, Sigmund Freud, Marie Curie, Rabindranath Tagore and Anton Chekhov.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 12 years after Crazy Horse died, Albert Einstein was born about 2 years after Crazy Horse died, Joseph Stalin was born about a year after Crazy Horse died and Pablo Picasso was born about 4 years after Crazy Horse died.

What happened in Crazy Horse’s lifetime

Where Crazy Horse’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

807 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Crazy Horse. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1863.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  5. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  6. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  7. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  8. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  9. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  14. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  17. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  20. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  23. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  24. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  25. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  26. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  27. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  28. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  29. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  30. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  31. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  32. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  33. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  34. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  35. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  36. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  37. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  38. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  39. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  40. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  41. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  42. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  43. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  44. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  45. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  46. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  47. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  48. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  49. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  50. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  51. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  52. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  53. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  54. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  55. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  56. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  57. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  58. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  59. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  60. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  61. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  62. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  63. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  64. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  65. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  66. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  67. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  68. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  69. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  70. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  71. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  72. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  73. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  74. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  75. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  76. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  77. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  78. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  79. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  80. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  81. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  82. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  83. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  84. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  85. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  86. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  87. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  88. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  89. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  90. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  91. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  92. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  93. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  94. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  95. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  96. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  97. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  98. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  99. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  100. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  101. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  102. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  103. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  104. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  105. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  106. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  107. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  108. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  109. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  110. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  111. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  112. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  113. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  114. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  115. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  116. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  117. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  118. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  119. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  120. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  121. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  122. Nicholas II 1868 – 1918
  123. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  124. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  125. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  126. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  127. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  128. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  129. Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 1936
  130. Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 – 1926
  131. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  132. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  133. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  134. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  135. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  136. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  137. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  138. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949
  139. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  140. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  141. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  142. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  143. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  144. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  145. Claude Debussy 1862 – 1918
  146. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
  147. Guglielmo Marconi 1874 – 1937
  148. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  149. Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
  150. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873